Автор: Matthew L. Jones
Название: Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2016
ISBN: 022641146X
Язык: English
Формат: epub
Размер: 16 mb
Страниц: 336
In Reckoning with Matter, Matthew L. Jones draws on the remarkably extensive and well-preserved records of the quest to explore the concrete processes involved in imagining, elaborating, testing, and building calculating machines. He explores the writings of philosophers, engineers, and craftspeople, showing how they thought about technical novelty, their distinctive areas of expertise, and ways they could coordinate their efforts. In doing so, Jones argues that the conceptions of creativity and making they exhibited are often more incisive—and more honest—than those that dominate our current legal, political, and aesthetic culture.
Introduction
1 Carrying Tens: Pascal, Morland, and the Challenge of Machine Calculation
FIRST CARRY Babbage and Clement Mechanize Table Making
2 Artisans and Their Philosophers: Leibniz and Hooke Coordinate Minds, Metal, and Wood
SECOND CARRY Babbage Gets Funded
3 Improvement for Profit: Calculating Machines and the Prehistory of Intellectual Property
THIRD CARRY Babbage Claims His Property
4 Reinventing the Wheel: Emulation in the European Enlightenment
FOURTH CARRY Babbage Confronts Prior Art
5 Teething Problems: Charles Stanhope and the Coordination of Technical Knowledge from Geneva to Kent
FIFTH CARRY Babbage’s Collaborators Emulate
6 Calculating Machines, Creativity, and Humility from Leibniz to Turing
FINAL CARRY Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Conventions
Abbreviations
Notes
References
Index
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Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage 
